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Maybe at some point Google will release a Classic version of the algo like Coca-Cola did.

by pier25 2y ago

GuB-42 2y ago
It would be interesting to see, but my guess is that it would be exploited to death very quickly. There is a constant cat and mouse game between search engine and those who want to "optimize" their results. Going back and staying there would be like having the mouse stand still, not good. It would have to be a different product, developed in parallel, rather than a snapshot of the past.
- xmprt 2y ago
  I don't think it's that simple. It's a cat and mouse game but the cat can't catch two different mice. If the classic Google algorithm is significantly different from the new one, SEO that's targeting the new algorithm wouldn't be as successful with the old one which is also barely used (so no one would bother optimizing for the old algorithm). Then make it so the new algorithm penalizes people abusing the old/simple algorithm (and since the old algorithm is simple, it should be simpler to catch people abusing it too).
  - canadianfella 2y ago
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  - TeMPOraL 2y ago
    Obviously the SEO scoundrels would make two pages, each optimized for different algorithm. Websites are effectively free to make.
lukan 2y ago
Coca-Cola used cocaine again?
- PartiallyTyped 2y ago
  It certainly uses Coca leaves. > Coca-Cola might have taken the cocaine out of their drink, but the company still needed to source coca leaves, which became more and more challenging. By 1914, the American federal government had officially restricted cocaine to medicinal use. So, as the government began debating an official import ban, Coke sent its lobbyists into the fray, pushing for a special exemption. Their fingerprints are all over the Harrison Act of 1922, which banned the import of coca leaves, but included a section permitting the use of “de-cocainized coca leaves or preparations made therefrom, or to any other preparations of coca leaves that do not contain cocaine.” Only two companies were given special permits by the act to import those coca leaves for processing — one of which was Maywood Chemical Works, of Maywood, New Jersey, whose biggest customer was the Coca-Cola company. > This special loophole would carry over in every piece of anti-narcotics legislation that followed, including international agreements restricting the global trade in coca leaves. Over the ensuing decades, the company continued to demonstrate the lengths to which they would go to protect their supply, from supporting opposition to the traditional use of coca, to developing a secret coca farm of their own on Hawaiʻi. https://www.eater.com/23620802/cocaine-in-coca-cola-coke-recipe-gastropod https://www.eater.com/23620802/cocaine-in-coca-cola-coke-rec...
  - lukan 2y ago
    That was a surprise. But it is written like it is bad, but I see nothing wrong with what Coca Cola did here. It was "de-cocainized coca leaves" after all. (also, I support decriminalisation of drugs in general)
BurningFrog 2y ago
The web the original algo was designed for no longer exists.

Maybe at some point Google will release a Classic version of the algo like Coca-Cola did.

by pier25 2y ago

Maybe at some point Google will release a Classic version of the algo like Coca-Cola did.

It would be interesting to see, but my guess is that it would be exploited to death very quickly. There is a constant cat and mouse game between search engine and those who want to "optimize" their results. Going back and staying there would be like having the mouse stand still, not good. It would have to be a different product, developed in parallel, rather than a snapshot of the past.

xmprt 2y ago
I don't think it's that simple. It's a cat and mouse game but the cat can't catch two different mice. If the classic Google algorithm is significantly different from the new one, SEO that's targeting the new algorithm wouldn't be as successful with the old one which is also barely used (so no one would bother optimizing for the old algorithm). Then make it so the new algorithm penalizes people abusing the old/simple algorithm (and since the old algorithm is simple, it should be simpler to catch people abusing it too).
- canadianfella 2y ago
  [dead]
- TeMPOraL 2y ago
  Obviously the SEO scoundrels would make two pages, each optimized for different algorithm. Websites are effectively free to make.

lukan 2y ago

Coca-Cola used cocaine again?

PartiallyTyped 2y ago
It certainly uses Coca leaves. > Coca-Cola might have taken the cocaine out of their drink, but the company still needed to source coca leaves, which became more and more challenging. By 1914, the American federal government had officially restricted cocaine to medicinal use. So, as the government began debating an official import ban, Coke sent its lobbyists into the fray, pushing for a special exemption. Their fingerprints are all over the Harrison Act of 1922, which banned the import of coca leaves, but included a section permitting the use of “de-cocainized coca leaves or preparations made therefrom, or to any other preparations of coca leaves that do not contain cocaine.” Only two companies were given special permits by the act to import those coca leaves for processing — one of which was Maywood Chemical Works, of Maywood, New Jersey, whose biggest customer was the Coca-Cola company. > This special loophole would carry over in every piece of anti-narcotics legislation that followed, including international agreements restricting the global trade in coca leaves. Over the ensuing decades, the company continued to demonstrate the lengths to which they would go to protect their supply, from supporting opposition to the traditional use of coca, to developing a secret coca farm of their own on Hawaiʻi. https://www.eater.com/23620802/cocaine-in-coca-cola-coke-recipe-gastropod https://www.eater.com/23620802/cocaine-in-coca-cola-coke-rec...
- lukan 2y ago
  That was a surprise. But it is written like it is bad, but I see nothing wrong with what Coca Cola did here. It was "de-cocainized coca leaves" after all. (also, I support decriminalisation of drugs in general)

BurningFrog 2y ago

The web the original algo was designed for no longer exists.